President Joe Biden will seek to stave off another surge of civilian suffering in the devastating war in Syria when he meets President Vladimir Putin this week, appealing to Putin to drop a threat to close the last aid crossing into that country. Russian forces have helped Syrian...

At least three pro-Iran militants, including senior Iraqi commander, were killed by unknown gunmen in the Albukamal region at the Syrian-Iraqi border, activists said Monday.   Activist Fawaz al-Marsoumi told Zaman al-Wasl that several members of the Shiite Sayyid al-Shuhada militia...

One person was killed and three others wounded in the regime's artillery attack on opposition-held areas in northern Idlib province, local activists said Monday.   The regime forces stationed in the town of Maaret al-Numan in southeastern Idlib region fired dozen of artillery shells...

The paramilitary National Defense militia on Monday said its commander in eastern Deir Ezzor province was honored by Russian army command in Hmeimim airbase in Latakia province.   Firas Jaham, known as Firas al-Iraqiya, was awarded the Russian defense ministry's medal of...

The second phase of a vaccination campaign in rebel-held parts of northwestern Syria began on Monday with dozens of people getting inoculated against coronavirus. The first phase got underway in Idlib province in early May, targeting medical staff and aid workers. On Monday, elderly...

  Syria’s ministry for trade and consumer protection has allowed the manufacturing of semi-dairy products and cheese, such a decision surfaces the Syrians social media sparking a wave of widespread resentment.   Activists said the decision is disregarding the people's health...

The Ansar al-Tawhid faction operating in northwestern Syria unveiled a homemade missile used last week in bombing Syrian and Russian forces' sites in southern Idlib province.   Abu Al-Farouq Ansar, media official in the Ansar al-Tawhid faction, told Zaman al-Wasl that the Zelzal...

The Syrian regime has offered displaced farm lands  in northwestern Syria  in public auctions for leasing or investment, a human rights group said Sunday.   Syrians for Truth and Justice assured that the ownership of the  confiscated  lands belongs to...

Shelling of the rebel-held city of Afrin in northern Syria killed at least 18 people on Saturday, many of them when a hospital was hit, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a doctor, three hospital staff, two women and two children died at Al-Shifaa...

The Syria Response Coordination group said Saturday that opposition-held areas in northern Idlib province are witnessing a new wave of displacement following the military escalation by the Syrian regime and Russian forces in violation of the ceasefire agreement reached in March 2020.  ...

Latakia fire brigade extinguished 43 fires within a week that broke out in separate areas of the coastal city and its countryside, local media reported.   Major. Muhannad Jaafar, head of the Latakia fire brigade, said most of the fires broke in bundles of dried herbs and grassy...

A disabled 15-year-old Syrian boy paralyzed by a regime airstrike hopes to receive treatment in Turkey to restore his health. Mohammed Jamil Shahabi, who lives with his mother and three siblings in the district of al-Bab in northern Syria, was injured when hit by a piece of shrapnel in...

 The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday that the appointment of the Syrian regime, which is involved in perpetrating crimes against humanity, to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board represents the greatest insult to the organization and all its staff and...

Aid agencies are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe if the UN Security Council fails to renew a resolution allowing lifesaving aid delivered cross-border to reach Syria. The resolution is set to expire in exactly a month’s time on July 10th. NGOs are warning that a failure to renew...

Syrian regime shelling on the opposition-held Idlib enclave killed 11 people Thursday, one of the deadliest violations of a 15-month-old ceasefire, a war monitor said. An AFP correspondent in the area saw the remains of a house destroyed by the rocket fire as well as a charred vehicle...

The Epidemiological Warning Network has recorded 176 COVID-19 cases in northwestern Syria amid fears of a new wave in the opposition-controlled areas.   The total number of cases recorded by the main health monitoring has reached 24,433 as the death toll from COVID-19 is 685. ...

Denmark has ordered the deportation of a Kurdish man from Syria as growing official hostility towards refugees living in the Scandinavian country means a new round of expulsions. Isa Kali, who lives in Frederiksvaerk, is among several hundred refugees who have recently been informed by the...

Syrian state media reported late Tuesday an Israeli aerial attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus and in the central province of Homs, prompting a response from national air defenses. The Syrian state news agency SANA said the Israeli attacks came from airspace over neighboring...

A Palestinian human rights network confirmed that 248 Palestinian refugees, including women and children, from the Khan al-Sheeh camp in Damascus countryside were forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime since the revolution erupted in March 2011.   The Action Group for the...

A child was killed and others wounded on Tuesday in artillery and missile shelling by Syrian regime forces on Jabal al-Zawiya area in northern Idlib province.   Zaman al-Wasl reporter confirmed that a child died this morning, and two of his two brothers and mother were wounded when a...